Language Modeling Resources

A non-exhaustive list of standard LM literature.

Studies

J. Goodman. A bit of progress in language modeling. 2001
R. Rosenfeld. Two decades of statistical language modeling: where do we go from here?. 2000
S. Chen and J. Goodman. An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling. 1996

Important Contributions

J. Bilmes and K. Kirchhoff. Factored language models and generalized parallel backoff. 2003
P. Dupont and R. Rosenfeld. Lattice based language models . 1997
R. Rosenfeld. A maximum entropy approach to adaptive statistical language modeling . 1996
P. Brown, P. de Souza, R. Mercer, V. Della Piertra and J. Lai. Class-based n-gram models of natural language. 1992